Bronson plays detective
Charles Bronson (right) plays a detective in “10 to Midnight,” a taut film that touches on a sensitive issue concerning the western world’s judicial system, which will begin at the Avon tomorrow evening. The screenplay is loosely based on two actual events: the 1966 slaying of eight nurses in Chicago by Richard Speck, and the “Towpath Murders,” in London.
In the British case, the bodies of several prostitutes had been found along the towpath by the River Thames, where the women would take their customers. A Scotland Yard investigator was able to discover who had committed the crime but no incriminating evidence could be found. The investigator planted evidence on the suspect but when the man was apprehended, the information was dicovered to be falsified, and the man was let goThe investigator was fired. Three murders later, the suspect was arrested, tried and found guilty.
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Press, 17 May 1984, Page 18
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